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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text 'buddys for ever' in pixel font.

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text 'buddys for ever' in pixel font.

Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text 'buddys for ever' in pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: animal pair, right: text block

Dense Caption

Blue background. Left side: pixelated brown tabby cat standing, facing forward with black eyes and nose; small yellow duckling positioned to the left of the cat's front paws, facing right. Right side: four lines of yellow pixel text reading 'buddys', 'wwwwwww', 'for', 'ever' in a blocky font. All elements are low-resolution pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text 'buddys for ever' in pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background pixel art
  • buddys for ever text block
  • low resolution animal buddy icon
  • cat and duckling pixel image

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • buddys
  • wwwwwww
  • for
  • ever

Visually Supported Entities

  • cat
  • duckling

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pixelated image
  • text 'buddys'
  • text 'wwwwwww'
  • text 'for'
  • text 'ever'
  • low-resolution pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907071950421102172206
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c46febf0bb15182e9b3859f8e304636442e65cda810c78bfaccbafaf2b3439ca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
c46febf0bb15182e
SHA-256
c46febf0bb15182e9b3859f8e304636442e65cda810c78bfaccbafaf2b3439ca
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 19:06 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000044

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text 'buddys for ever' in pixel font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,602 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 581

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • left: animal pair, right: text block

Dense Caption

Blue background. Left side: pixelated brown tabby cat standing, facing forward with black eyes and nose; small yellow duckling positioned to the left of the cat's front paws, facing right. Right side: four lines of yellow pixel text reading 'buddys', 'wwwwwww', 'for', 'ever' in a blocky font. All elements are low-resolution pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text 'buddys for ever' in pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background pixel art
  • buddys for ever text block
  • low resolution animal buddy icon
  • cat and duckling pixel image

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • buddys
  • wwwwwww
  • for
  • ever

Visually Supported Entities

  • cat
  • duckling

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pixelated image
  • text 'buddys'
  • text 'wwwwwww'
  • text 'for'
  • text 'ever'
  • low-resolution pixels
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200907071950421102172206
Archive entry
200907071950421102172206.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907071950421102172206.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907071950421102172206.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016